Statistics of Extremes and Records in Random Sequences

An excellent topic and a most welcome textbook. Extreme value statistics appears in a wide variety of contexts and provides a natural focal point for interdisciplinary research using methods of statistical physics. * Joachim Krug, University of Cologne, Germany *Very timely and there is a great deal of interest in this field. * Robert Ziff, University of Michigan *An authoritative and timely review of the methods and tools adapted to the important study of extreme events in many contexts. * Clément Sire, CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse *

Satya Majumdar has been the CNRS Research Director at LPTMS (Université Paris-Saclay) since 2004. He is also an adjunct professor at the Tata Institute in Bombay, the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, the Higgs Centre of the University of Edinburgh, and the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India. He has won several awards including the Paul Langevin Medal of the French Physical Society (2005), the European Physical Society Prize for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2019), the CNRS Silver Medal (2019), and the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2019).

Grégory Schehr has been a CNRS Research Director at LPTHE (Sorbonne Université) since 2019. Since 2023 he has also been “Professeur Chargé de Cours” at Ecole Polytechnique. In 2010 he was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal, and in 2022 the Aniuta Winter-Klein Prize of the French Academy of Science.